Rosting and email are my vision of the future. Rosting or “RSS direct posting” is publishing content directly to an RSS feed. You can just do that.
\ http://rubymayvalentine.net/rss.xml
You can even use escape sequences to do html inside of a “rost.”
The utopia I imagine is all of us with our feed readers of choice hosting our own rss feeds and rosting and emailing each other. Maybe some of us even use IRC or XMPP to communicate. The future can be realized.
Here’s my most recent “rost.” Only people who are subscribed to my rss feed (or read the plaintext xml file like some sort of freak) can view this. It’s not on my blog or anything you know.* You can post directly to rss. You can rost.
*sort of a bad example but this is a slightly modified version of my post that’s almost identical on cohost
Sort of like how “you can send someone a voicemail directly” this is a somewhat unexplored and not often mentioned detail about rss except it’s infinitely better than voicemail.
<item>
<title>Advertisement</title>
<description>
<![CDATA[
<p><i>Template engine? Static site generator? JavaScript?</i> </p>
<p>Not on rubymayvalentine.net. We only offer organic, hand-coded, homegrown, css, xml, and html.</p> ]]>
</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 19:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
<link>https://rubymayvalentine.net</link>
<guid isPermaLink="false">rost#26</guid>
</item>```
@mattcolewilson has created a much more useful guide to rosting and RSS than my original post and it’s a great place to start with the idea
time to look into real rss readers i suppose